Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1989
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 30, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 30, 1989, 10:34 PM CST for Colbert County, Alabama. It was in force for 56 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 30, 1989, 10:34 PM CST (04:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 30, 1989, 11:30 PM CST
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Colbert County, AL
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 10:50 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Colbert, AL |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 193 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1131 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 98 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 242 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Mar 30, 9:49 PM CST, 45 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 948 PM CST THU MAR 30 1989 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR SECTIONS OF CENTRAL AND NORTH ALABAMA UNTIL 2 AM CST... AT 948 PM CST A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...SOME SEVERE PRODUCING LARGE HAIL...EXTENDED FROM THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF ALABAMA SOUTHWESTWARD TO TUPELO AND GREENWOOD MISSISSIPPI. A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR TUPELO WILL AFFECT SECTIONS OF MARION COUNTY BY 1030 PM CST. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA NEED TO MONITOR THEIR LOCAL RADIO...TV OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE NEXT FEW HOURS AS THE STORMS MOVE THROUGH THE AREA. THE STORMS WILL LIKELY REACH THE TUSCALOOSA AND BIRMINGHAM AREAS A LITTLE AFTER 12 MIDNIGHT.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 10:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marion | 58 min |
| Mar 30, 10:08 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Franklin | 54 min |
| Mar 30, 10:13 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Marion | 47 min |
| Mar 30, 11:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lawrence | 58 min |
| Mar 30, 11:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lawrence, Limestone, Morgan | 66 min |
| Mar 30, 11:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Madison | 68 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 1989Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1989
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.